Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
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Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
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Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#2 Oh, and Crate is already profitable. No worries about losing your stuff because the business tanks.
The site seems a little too bare to trust with my credit card, though the free version sounds really great. It seems like it's missing something. Like a weekend project that still has some details to flesh out.
Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#3It's like a box you can drop stuff in
Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#4The files are hosted on AWS S3 (despite the fact that their domain is "cdn.lts.cr", they're not using CloudFront), so assuming a cost of $0.14/GB (too lazy to calculate it including S3's various pricing ranges that come into play when more data is being stored), and completely ignoring facts such as cost of hosting the site, and the time factor of creating and managing the site...
Also assuming that all free users use all of their 200mb, and all pro users use all of their 10gb...
They need a free-to-pro conversation rate of 0.37% to break even on the S3 costs, i.e. one pro account for every 271 free accounts.
Alternatively assuming that all users will use 50% of their 200mb or 10gb, then that's a conversation rate of 0.17%, or one pro account for every 593 free accounts.
My guess is that, if we ignore people who try it out and then decide not to use the service, chances are that, of the people who stick around (i.e. the people who will actually store more than one test file), quite a decent number will move to the pro account. So yeah, I can see how they are making a profit, seems like it could turn into a nice (and really easy maintenance) little cash cow.
On a seperate topic, would be amazing if someone created an open source version of this as a front-end for S3 - though I'm far too lazy to do it myself.
edit: I see the creators are reading this thread, so here's a direct query. Any chance you'd create an account for maybe a few dollars a month (less than pro) that you provide no storage for, and that gets hooked up to an S3 (or S3+CloudFront) account of the user's chosing?
Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#5Oh, and Crate is already profitable. No worries about losing your stuff because the business tanks. That's helpful, but not a guarantee. The site seems a little too bare to trust with my credit card, though the free version sounds really great. It seems like it's missing something. Like a weekend project that still has some details to flesh out.
What could we add to change your mind?
Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#6Oh, and Crate is already profitable. No worries about losing your stuff because the business tanks. That's helpful, but not a guarantee. The site seems a little too bare to trust with my credit card, though the free version sounds really great. It seems like it's missing something. Like a weekend project that still has some details to flesh out.
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Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#7It's like a box you can drop stuff in
If only someone had thought of that before, eh?
Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#8Oh, and Crate is already profitable. No worries about losing your stuff because the business tanks. That's helpful, but not a guarantee. The site seems a little too bare to trust with my credit card, though the free version sounds really great. It seems like it's missing something. Like a weekend project that still has some details to flesh out.
What could we add to change your mind?
Now see? That's the kind of response that I love.
Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#9Oh, and Crate is already profitable. No worries about losing your stuff because the business tanks. That's helpful, but not a guarantee. The site seems a little too bare to trust with my credit card, though the free version sounds really great. It seems like it's missing something. Like a weekend project that still has some details to flesh out.
What could we add to change your mind?
A few personal thoughts:
- Allow a custom CNAME for files hosted so that they can be shared on a pro user's own domain (you're already CNAMEing to S3, is it possible for you to add additional CNAMEs onto that for users? I'm not sure.)
- Publicly viewable directory listing for a crate? When I saw the name that's how I assumed it would work straight away, that after creating a crate I can link someone to it and they can see and view all the files in it. Realised this is actually possible before I submitted this comment, but have kept it in here to make the point that it could perhaps be a bit clear. Waiting for a user to mouseover the crate name to discover this feature helps keep the site looking clean, but perhaps isn't the best usability feature (at least for new users).
- No ability to change username (nice but not necessary) or email (necessary) in the settings page
- https://
edit: p.s. I realised that in neither of my comments did I remember to mention - nice work, a really nice minimalistic product!
Re: Crate. Web-based file sharing done incredibly easy.
#10I was introduced to http://min.us and have been hooked.